To clone the the Parrot Git repo into a directory called 'parrot', use the following:

git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git

If you want it to be in a directory other than 'parrot', then just give that as a second
argument to clone:

git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git parrot_foo

Parrot 3.2.0 News:

- Core
+ Full support for Unicode filenames on Linux and Win32
+ The configuration option --cxx is gone
+ New Generational GC implemented. To enable it run Configure.pl --gc=gms
+ Now op definitions are semantically parsed. It opens possibilities for
future optimizations of parrot core.
+ A statement convert the '.param' PIR systax
+ A PMC is implemented for low-level buffer access which separate the
representation from the pointers
+ Support added for 'long double', 'long long', and 64-bit to StructView
+ In math.h are tools available for Inf/NaN
+ Signature PMCs are used pervasively
- Languages
+ A few tests in Cardinal are fixed
+ A binary .dmg is created of Rakudo Star for OS X
+ Winxed
- Minor fixes, refactors and cleaning
- New predefs replace, push and provide a way to access multiple return
values
- Operators exits, class and .* (indirect method call) added
- $loadlib directive
- -o option to installable driver added
- Indent generated PIR is added to improve clarity and avoid imcc pitfalls
with non indented sub bodys
- Community
+ M0 roadmap is in progress
- Documentation
+ 'make docs' target, which was serving only to generate superfluous POD
files, has been removed.
+ Svn remnants from PDDs are removed
- Tests
+ Added 'make release_check' target so that Release Manager can double-check
tarball
+ Probes added for 'long long' and 64-bit C types
- Rosella
Rosella is a collection of tools and building blocks for Parrot
+ A working proxy library is created, that make mostly-transparent custom
proxies for many types of Parrot PMCs
+ A mockobject testing library is created, using the new proxy library
+ The PLA test suite is updated to use the new Rosella testing tools,
including the new mockobjects to test callbacks